next to

1. Adjacent to, as in The car next to mine has a flat tire , [Late 1300s]

2. Following in order or degree, as in Next to skiing, she likes hiking . [Early 1500s]

3. Almost, practically, as in It's next to impossible to predict the outcome , or I earned next to nothing last year . [Second half of 1600s]

Example Sentences

Piles of debris are heaped on the parish's roadsides, next to battered buildings, shipping crates turned on their side and crowds of people wading through the destruction.

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In last year’s rally, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and Ice Cube performed next to each other, with Roberts dancing and Ice Cube singing.

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He spoke to the BBC in Islamabad, next to a half-built, four-storey concrete building as big as a car park - and right by a stream that he saw flood this summer, killing a child.

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It’s sitting in a drawer somewhere, gathering dust next to the report about how maybe we shouldn’t have bailed out everyone in 2008.

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It is disorienting in precisely the way maps are not meant to be, with the Great Lakes appearing next to Venezuela, yet it also helps one see the world anew.

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Related Words

• adjoining 
• neighboring